’24:’ Will Walker forgive Jack?

Jack Bauer and F.B.I. Special Agent Renee Walker have got some issues, and they’ve only known each other like 30 minutes.

Noon – 1 p.m.

How good was this line? “Shut up or I will shut you up!”

I give them two episodes before they start making out  Jack and Walker.

As this episode was coming to a close, I couldn’t help but wonder why Jack spared F.B.I. Special Agent Walker’s life. Anybody remember when Jack killed Chappelle for the greater good? Wasn’t this the same situation?

There are a few reasons why this might be different:

 American lives aren’t in direct danger in the Walker scenario. To kill her for a conspiracy might be too much. I know we don’t know how many American lives the conspiracy will cost down the road, but at that moment it wasn’t worth the risk.

 Jack respects her too much. You saw that terrorist-ass-kicking twinkle in his eye when the F.B.I. youngling told Jack that Walker “knows what it takes to get the job done.”

I wonder what’s going on in that plastic-and-dirt buried head of hers. She might be able to take that morsel of knowledge about the F.B.I. mole and see the big picture, but that’s a stretch. She thinks Jack’s the mole. She probably thinks Jack’s just doing this thing for the money, and that he doesn’t want innocent blood on his hands.

 How did Prime Minister Matobo get from the Oval Office to the Sengalan Embassy  or wherever he was  so quickly? And why can’t the F.B.I. get there as quickly as he did?

 I don’t know what the Attorney General’s office is doing, or why. I know why they wrote it that way. Because there always has to be one dumbass with his priorities out of whack. The stuff’s going down and they want to get all legal. Come on!

 I have to say, I’m digging President Taylor. No negotiations!

 Sean is cheating on his wife!? I don’t actually care about Sean as a character. But you have got to see the mole situation unfolding amidst that affair, can’t you? I think the blond’s the mole.

 Not totally clued in yet on the First Gentleman and his Secret Service agent, but that was some wicked backstabbing. That was well played. You kind of knew something was up as they were approaching the apartment. But we are surprised with the First Gentleman, as the agent puts on the rubber gloves. Nicely done.